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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays
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Willie Mays
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: May 6
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Jefferson County
Alabama
Willie Howard Mays Jr.
Willie Howard Mays
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Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
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I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
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I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
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Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
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What's tough is being good every day.
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When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
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What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.
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If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
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I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.
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